Many of our problems in US maternity care stem from the fact that we leave no room for recognizing when nature is smarter than we are.

It is important to keep in mind that our bodies must work pretty well, or their wouldn't be so many humans on the planet.

It would be a mistake, though, to consider care by family doctors or midwives inferior to that offered by obstetricians simply on the grounds that obstetricians need not refer care to a family physician or midwife if no complications develop during a course of labor.

The human species is no more unsuited to give birth than any other of the 5,000 or so species of mammals on the planet. We are merely the most confused.

Ask the woman, she will tell you everything you need to know

When you cast doubt on some bodily function- you don't know how sensitive the body is to that kind of idea.

When a child is born, the entire Universe has to shift and make room. Another entity capable of free will, and therefore capable of becoming God, has been born.